LKML: Richard Weinberger: New syscall: leftpad()Recent happenings in the node.js community showed how fragile software is when it comes to dependencies of fundamental algorithms like leftpad[1]. A node.js package which provided ledpad vanished and broke a lot of software. This raised our attention and we came to the conclusion that it is the kernel's job to provide such functionality such that node.js based applications can in future rely in Li
